#earn

Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#blessing #descend #earned #enjoyed #liberty

You learned the two greatest thing in life, never rat on your friends, and always keep your mouth shut. ↗

— Robert De Niro

#friends #greatest #greatest thing #keep #learned

You can't learn pathos or profundity. ↗

— Nigel Kennedy

#pathos #profundity #you

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another - until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#cannot #enough #heard #learn #our

What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#attitudes #change #deep #enough #excellence

You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#defeat #develop #got #learn #survive

People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I earned everything I've got. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#earned #everything #got #i #know

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#deduction #direct #inference #intercourse #learn

Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that, because useful knowledge should be remembered, any kind of knowledge that is at all worth learning should be remembered too. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#any #because #common #error #kind

Yeah, it's odd when you look back at your own work. Some filmmakers don't look back at their work at all. I look at my work a lot, actually. I feel like I learned something while looking at stuff I've done in terms of what I'm going to do in the future, mistakes I've made and things at work or what have you. ↗

— Christopher Nolan

#back #done #feel #filmmakers #future